Oct 15th – Women In Logistics Dinner Meeting
The BC Women in Logistics (WIL) are happy to announce an Autumn meeting creating a wonderful networking opportunity.
Be sure to mark Thursday October 15, 2009 on your calendar for the Dinner Speaker, Ruth Abramson, and “how to weave sustainability into your purchasing practices.”
Looking for ways to go green? To make the sustainability shift in your organization? To address the complex demands of going carbon neutral with your peers?
Oct 29th – CMHDS UAP/NAPA Tour
Join us on Thursday October 29th as we tour the UAP/NAPA Vancouver Distribution Centre in Langley, BC. This facility is one of 58 Distribution Centres supporting the 5800 NAPA Auto Stores throughout North America so join us and see how this Atlanta based giant handles distributing auto parts.
We have arranged for two tours (3:00pm and 5:30pm) which are limited to 15 people for each tour (30 people in total). Due to this REGISTRATION IS LIMITED TO CMHDS MEMBERS ONLY.
Deltaport hosts one of the World’s Largest Container Ships
The first of many visits by the shipping giant began on Sunday, August 23rd.
TSI Terminal Systems Inc. reports that the ZIM Djibouti, one of the largest container ships operating in the world, was docked at the Deltaport terminal from August 23rd until August 26th. At over 16,000 square metres (about the size of three football fields), the Djibouti has a cargo capacity in excess of 10,000 TEU, meaning it can hold over 10,000 twenty-foot shipping containers.
CMHDS Re-Launches “Logistically Speaking”
Over the last few years, we have been sending out announcements on an ad hoc basis to alert members to a host of opportunites, including tours, the Forklift Rally, various partner events, CMHDS golf tournament, and courses, to name some. Needless to say, there were occasional reports of important announcements being missed amid everyone’s flood of inbound Email. Beyond that, it was a lot of work to send out all of those announcements.
With this in mind, and being the logistics professionals that we (say we) are, we sought a way to eliminate this scatter gun approach and better consolidate and present as much of this information as possible to members in a predictable and easy format. So just as one might see consolidation or staging centres to better control just in time delivery of parts and products to your dock, the new newsletter is an attempt to do something similar for the dispatch of CHMDS information to your desktop.
CMHDS Launches New Website
The CMHDS is pleased to announce the launch of our all new website. Not just a redesign of the old site, this site is brand new from the ground up built using the WordPress platform which will allow us more opportunity to have two way communication with members as the new format includes options such as member comments and the inclusion of a members forum.
This new site will showcase a number of features designed to add value for CMHDS members including announcements of upcoming events and courses, industry news and announcements, a discussion forum, employment information, links to www.ForkliftRally.com and Supply Chain Safety Council pages, and more.
